WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court considers on Monday its first major dispute on student free-speech rights in nearly 20 years, a case about the power of school authorities to censor what they viewed as a pro-drug message at a school-sponsored event.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 1.1 million additional home foreclosures are expected over the next six years as adjustable-rate mortgages -- which made home buying more affordable to U.S. buyers in recent years -- reset to higher payments, according to a study by research firm First American CoreLogic.

AP - The roof of a popular bowling alley collapsed while several children's birthday parties were taking place inside, but no one was injured.

AP - Teenagers brawled in the stands at a high school basketball game at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, leading police to crackdown on the melee, which spilled into the streets.

AP - No one's sure why 12-year-old Michael Auberry apparently wandered away from his Boy Scout troop's campsite in Doughton Park. But nearly two days and two freezing nights later, searchers are desperately trying to find him in the rugged terrain of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

AP - Davidson College announced Monday it will do away with loans when awarding need-based financial aid, a move school officials said would allow students to graduate debt-free.

AP - The fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq brought Susan Hay to an anti-war march snaking through downtown — one of the largest of several such demonstrations across the nation and one that ended with police using pepper spray.

AP - More than 100 years after Upton Sinclair's scathing critique of Chicago's meat industry in 'The Jungle,' the city's last major slaughterhouse is looking for a new home.

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt said on Monday America's economy remained in good shape and the housing market appeared to be stabilizing.

AP - Police academy officials will meet here Monday to consider whether town marshals who patrol a polygamist enclave on the Arizona-Utah border should be stripped of their badges on accusations that they revere their religious leader more than the law.

AP - No one's sure why 12-year-old Michael Auberry disappeared from his Boy Scout troop's campsite in Doughton Park. But two days and two freezing nights later, searchers are desperately trying to find him in the rugged terrain of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

AP - Few wildfires have marked a community as deeply as the one deliberately set near here last October that became a massive firestorm, killing five firefighters.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's largest passenger plane makes its debut in the United States on Monday, as two of Airbus' A380 superjumbos head for simultaneous landings in New York and Los Angeles.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dr. Carla Pugh seems an unlikely patron of porn shops.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - US Airways Group said on Sunday it had managed to sort out travel arrangements for most of the 100,000 passengers whose flights were grounded by Friday's storm.

AP - Fights between fans during a championship high school basketball game at Madison Square Garden turned into a melee that spilled into the streets and subways, drawing police on horseback and in riot gear.

AP - Airport lines were still long Monday but getting back to normal in as US Airways tried to recover from a paralyzing ice storm that stranded thousands of travelers in Northeast cities over the weekend.

AP - A man wounded his wife and fatally shot his son in a feud over the son's marriage. He then held police at bay for nearly 30 hours before he was found dead inside the home, police and authorities said.

AP - An 88-year-old woman was shot five times while she slept Monday morning and was recovering in a hospital, authorities said.

AP - The famed 'natural mineral water' baths at Saratoga Spa State Park have been diluted with regular tap water for the past two decades, state officials confirmed Monday.

AP - The Catawba Indian Nation may not offer video gambling on its reservation because it would violate a state law prohibiting the games, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Monday.

AP - All four election board members for Cuyahoga County, troubled by recount rigging charges and voting machine problems, have been asked to resign, a state official said Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Airbus debuted the world's largest passenger plane in the United States on Monday, as two of its A380 superjumbos touched down in New York and Los Angeles.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The start of Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial was delayed on Monday after his lawyers complained that a fresh dose of publicity about a key witness against the former media baron might have tainted the jury.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - State Farm Mutual, Mississippi's largest insurer, will accelerate settlements to Gulf Coast residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in 2005's Hurricane Katrina, the state's insurance commissioner said on Monday.

AP - A man accused of starting a raging wildfire that killed five firefighters pleaded not guilty Monday to new charges that connect him to 23 arson fires.

AP - Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector — four years after an actress who starred in a cult movie was shot to death in the foyer of his castle-like home.

AP - Disgusted with his insurance company after Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Simmie Harvey let his homeowner policy lapse and left his house in the hands of a higher power.

AP - Amid the Confederate flags, anti-Yankee bumper stickers and Civil War relics on display at Bob Moates Sport Shop, a counterattack against the North is under way.

AP - Georgia's governor sounded skeptical Monday about issuing a public apology for slavery, an idea that got a boost last week with the support of a Republican leader.

AP - About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health officials said on Monday they were still trying to find a reason for the deaths of a number of pets, two days after a company based in Ontario, Canada, pulled millions of tons of pet food off store shelves.

DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas death row inmate has staged a hunger strike for a month to protest inhumane prison conditions for those awaiting execution and vowed to stay the course until his scheduled date with death on March 29.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The start of Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial was delayed until Tuesday after his lawyers complained that publicity about a key witness against the former media baron might have tainted the jury.

AP - A New Jersey couple claimed half of the record $390 million Mega Millions jackpot Monday and said they are retired — effective immediately.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals panel in New Orleans said on Monday that a lower court judge improperly granted class-action status in a $40 billion lawsuit by Enron Corp. investors, a big victory for the investment banks Merrill Lynch and Co Inc. and Credit Suisse Group that sought to have the ruling overturned.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental pill appears to be helping a toddler who had a near-fatal skin reaction to his father's smallpox shot, doctors said on Monday.

AP - Three police officers charged in a 50-bullet barrage that killed an unarmed groom on his wedding day appeared before a judge Monday and had their first encounter since the shooting with the victims and their families.

AP - A man pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter for failing to properly hitch a wood-chipper to his truck in an accident that killed a man and two of his young triplets.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. health officials said on Monday they expected the number of pet deaths to increase as they probe the cause of tainted pet food that has already killed at least 10 animals through kidney failure.

AP - A soldier accused of ordering subordinates to kill three Iraqi detainees should be sentenced to 10 years in prison, a military jury decided Monday.

AP - A town in Alaska's frozen interior that offered free land to anyone willing to put down roots had it all spoken for within hours Monday.

AP - Linda Englund placed flowers Monday beside a small white flag commemorating a soldier killed in Iraq, a friend of her son, who was standing beside him when he was shot in 2004.

AP - A retired postmaster from Florida and his new Tennessee wife had been looking a long time for their dream home. Then it found them. 'This is too much,' said Robert 'Bob' O'Neill, 69, of Johnson City after learning he was the 2007 winner of cable channel HGTV's $2.5 million 'Dream Home Giveaway.'

AP - Federal prosecutors on Monday announced a 19-count indictment against a San Francisco Bay area businessman for starting a 2005 blaze that destroyed a warehouse and six million bottles of wine.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a California man on Monday with stealing fine wine he stored for upscale clients and then burning down a warehouse holding 6 million bottles worth $200 million to $250 million to hide the scam.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beginning in May, U.S. consumers will be able to buy a 'forever' stamp for 41 cents that remains valid regardless of a future increase, and the price of a first-class stamp will rise to 41 cents from 39 cents, the board of the U.S. Postal Service decided on Monday.

AP - A former Camden elementary school principal and his top aide were indicted Monday on charges that they tricked parents and students in the nation's poorest city into paying for outings that were financed by the school district, then kept the thousands of dollars they collected.

AP - A businessman has been indicted in a 2005 blaze that destroyed a warehouse and $100 million worth of rare vintage wines, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. said on Tuesday it would recall about 166,000 vehicles in the United States of the Accord, Odyssey and five other models to fix a faulty component in the fuel pump.